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Have you thought about using
Have you thought about using a camera so you can report close passers to the police for careless driving?
Without a camera, the campaign is doomed from the start. With a camera, it’s probably still doomed, depending on the attitude of the police. You would have some hope, according to information on here, in the Sheffield NW area or Northamptonshire. You would have no hope whatsoever here, or in Scotland.
“It’s vital that every force
“It’s vital that every force across the UK puts that evidence to good use to make our roads safer for everyone.”
Unfortunately, the good use that at least several forces have in mind is The Bin
With a bit of effort from the
With a bit of effort from the Police to prosecute these drivers and the publicity that acts as a deterrent, there is a chance the roads could become safer for vulnerable users
A charmingly Panglossian view for the first day of the New Year. Experience will tell, by the second day, that we’re not going to get that effort- or, at least, not most of us. I can say for sure that none of those cases in the WMP compilation would have gone anywhere other than the bin in Lancashire. Apologies for repeating this case yet again, but it shows the lengths to which some police forces are prepared to go to avoid taking any action. WU59 UMH (you’ll remember the 6 1/2 years bureaucracy-free motoring) spent most of New Years Eve (apart from a couple of hours in the afternoon) parked outside the most ‘spit and sawdust’ disreputable pub in Garstang, as I thought it would. This is it early this morning
A man has been charged after
A man has been charged after police stopped a suspect riding an e-scooter on the M5
Police and courts essentially impotent in such cases and known to be so. He’s not going to be bothered by the points on the licence he may not have, or any unenforced driving ban, and he’ll soon get over the loss of the scooter by getting another one. The only penalty that would work is the big fine which isn’t going to be imposed. Little wonder that all varieties of motoring offences appear to be increasing. Crisis. What crisis?
There’s some winemaking in
There’s some winemaking in Wales..
There is indeed, and this one is using sheep’s wool in an interesting way. Good luck to them
Today and a 32-year-old man,
Today and a 32-year-old man, of Leek, is in custody after being arrested on suspicion of assaulting an emergency worker, dangerous driving, drink driving, driving while disqualified, failing to stop after an accident, failing to provide a specimen, and using threatening behaviour with intent to cause fear
I foresee a severe talking-to.
It’s some Dodge, that Dodge
It’s some Dodge, that Dodge 22!
It seems to have been
It seems to have been established that there’s no necessary connection between a car’s driver and its registered keeper: on that basis, seeing a numberplate is not providing identification of either of those data subjects
It hasn’t been established with LancsFilth,or many other forces I suspect, as this connection is the basis for the much misused GDPR dodge so beloved of those serial cover-up merchants whereby they refuse to tell you what they actually did about those offences against you (because it was actually nothing at all)
Not all bad news then! At
Not all bad news then! At least there’s 1 fewer of those dangerous nutter self-driving vehicles ‘on the road’.
True- I’ve not seen more than
True- I’ve not seen more than 2 vehicles consecutively go through here. However, today a big HGV carrying a digger went through on red at speed. Awaiting upRide. Vehicle is G16 DHT, owned by David Hartley, Transport and Training of Lancaster, who operates a ‘driving school’ which apparently teaches people how to tow trailers (through red lights)
Optional traffic lights
Optional traffic lights
Double snap- immediately ignored by Lancashire Constabulary
Pick-up trucks already are.
Pick-up trucks already are. If they have class N1 type approval and a payload capacity of over 1000kg – which they would have to as the VAT & BIK tax advantages are only applicable if they are commercial vehicles, then they are subject to the same reduced limits as a van
I’m taking you as an expert, so this is useful information!
In nine years of driving
In nine years of driving illegally (and dangerously, given he can’t see) the Lancashire Police didn’t pick up on him
Even a reasonably effective force would not necessarily detect such cases, but the determinedly ineffective forces are a different matter (I only know about traffic offences personally). I suspect no significant action has ever been taken over any of the offences I have reported since December 2018. Initially, years ago, I was told that warning letters had been sent, but I now suspect they were lying about many of those and they no longer respond to any reports. The complaint to ‘Professional Standards’ over the refusal to act over this offence resulted in a statement that they had to have confirmatory video from the alleged offending vehicle, and because there wasn’t any they’couldn’t do anything’.
https://upride.cc/incident/md68fwc_apcovernight_whitelinecross/
Over a year after these offences, they backed out (blaming, of course, the CPS) of the prosecution of these (same driver, same vehicle, same offences, same place, 2 days apart) because of a law they had made up where you have to have rear view video to show them actually crossing the unbroken white line from left to right- the obvious conclusion being that it’s legal to speed down the right side of the road and pass the start of the UWL in Lancashire :
https://upride.cc/incident/j111kdw_bmwgrancoupe_uwlcross/
https://upride.cc/incident/j111kdw_bmwgrancoupe_closepassuwlcross/
They are going to extraordinary lengths to refuse to disclose the actual penalty for this (nearly all of you have seen these, of course), after declaring they would be taking action from a provided list which included ‘no action at all’. There is no doubt that they can tell me what action was taken, because there are numerous instances provided by such as Cycling Mikey- they just don’t want to admit that it was indeed ‘no action at all’, and even LC are wary about lying in writing to a court. This quite an important case, because if all this ‘we can’t tell you because of GDPR, even though police forces are doing it all the time’ (courtesy of HoarseMann) dodge was removed, we would all know how little they’re doing
https://upride.cc/incident/4148vz_travellerschoicecoach_closepass/
Finally, WU59 UMH, as I have shown too often recently, is still frequently seen around Garstang (last sighting by me 2 days ago) despite several reports, a Facebook page, a recent failed MOT for dangerous defects, and over 6 years of happy MOT, insurance and VED free motoring. So, even if they had been told about this ‘Death by Dangerous Driving’ offender above, they would just lie about it and cover it up
I always leave it on the most
I always leave it on the most powerful setting…
Yes, that’s what they all do!
And they’re more the choice
And they’re more the choice of VED and MOT evading crooks. I suppose that guzzler pickups are worse but similar to SUVs, although most of the new evading vehicles around here are Mercedes, BMW, Audi and Range Rover. Pickups are the worst in terms of numbers on the road. This one is 6 months without MOT.
